we are for investing in education. we share the majority leader's view on that. but it's not going to be much sol is for them, mr. speaker, -- solace for them, mr. speaker, and their families to say, we dropped you off the rolls, you won't be able to pay your mortgage, you won't be able to put food on the table because the senate hasn't acted. whether the senate ought to act on the bills in question i think is debatable. i opposed many of those pieces of legislation myself, as did others, but we have a crisis and that crisis is we have 1.3 million. and that same c.b.o. to which the majority leader referred said that not to pass this extended benefit will in fact undermine the economy and could cost as many as 300,000 jobs of people who are working now but who will not be working because of the lack of resources of those 1.3 million consumers, whether they're consuming food, housing, clothing, necessary its of life, we're going to be undermining jobs in america and our economy. almost every economist that i talked to shares that view. in any event, i want to make